> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.userkit.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Update a feature

> Requires `billing:write`. Changes a feature's name, its description, and whether it is archived. Send only the fields you are changing; `archived` is a state it can come back from.

What cannot change is **how the feature is measured** — `kind`, `unit_name` and `reset_period` are refused, by name, rather than quietly ignored. The kind is copied onto every plan that carries the feature, and the database refuses to change it while any plan does: flipping `metered` to `boolean` under a plan would leave a limit nothing reads and a customer whose usage stopped being counted. A feature measured differently is a different feature — create it under a new key and archive this one.

`key` is refused for the same reason a plan's is: it is the string your own code gates on.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json patch /v1/organization/catalogue/features/{id}
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: UserKit API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    The HTTP surface of UserKit.


    Two planes share one API. The **staff plane** is what a human uses in the
    panel: users, organizations, roles, members, keys. The **customer plane** is
    what a developer's own product uses: contacts, identities, hosted or
    federated sign-in.


    Every error answers the same envelope — `{"error": {"code", "message"}}`.
    The `code` is a stable contract to branch on; the `message` is for a person
    and may change.
servers:
  - url: '{baseUrl}'
    description: The API host.
    variables:
      baseUrl:
        default: https://api.userkit.dev
        description: Base URL of the API, no trailing slash.
security:
  - sessionToken: []
tags:
  - name: Authentication
    description: >-
      Public sign-up, sign-in, two-factor and password recovery for staff
      accounts.
  - name: Session
    description: >-
      The active session: who the caller is, which organization they are in, and
      signing out.
  - name: Account
    description: The caller's own account — profile, password, sessions, avatar.
  - name: Two-factor
    description: >-
      TOTP setup, activation and recovery codes. Returns 501 when two-factor is
      unavailable on the server.
  - name: Organizations
    description: The organizations a user belongs to, and the active one.
  - name: Environments
    description: >-
      The live and test environments seeded with every organization, and their
      identity settings.
  - name: Members
    description: Memberships and invitations.
  - name: Roles
    description: Roles and the permission catalogue they draw from.
  - name: Audit log
    description: >-
      What staff did inside an organization. Append-only, and read behind its
      own permission.
  - name: API keys
    description: Secret keys (`uk_sk_…`) and publishable keys (`uk_pk_…`).
  - name: Contacts (staff session)
    description: >-
      The staff view of the customer plane, opened by a staff session. Reads
      take `?environment=` as an explicit view parameter.
  - name: Contacts (API key)
    description: >-
      The machine surface, authenticated by an API key. The environment is the
      key's environment and cannot be named by the caller.
  - name: Customer plane
    description: >-
      Called from the developer's own pages with a publishable key: boot, magic
      link, and the contact's own session.
  - name: Hosted auth
    description: >-
      Sign-up, sign-in, verification and recovery for contacts, when UserKit
      owns the account.
  - name: Customer teams
    description: >-
      A customer is a team. Its roster, its invitations and its two roles —
      owner and member — administered by the contact's own session. The active
      customer travels in `X-Customer-Id`.
  - name: Webhooks
    description: >-
      Outbound webhooks: endpoints, the published event catalogue, the delivery
      log, replay and test sends. Never gated by a plan — webhooks are a
      developer primitive.
  - name: Catalogue
    description: >-
      The plans, prices and features **you** sell to your own customers. Per
      environment, a price per currency, and `recurring` or `one_time`. Distinct
      from the plan you are on with UserKit, which is `GET
      /v1/organization/entitlements`.
  - name: Subscriptions
    description: >-
      What one of **your** customers is paying you, mirrored from the gateway
      that charges them. The gateway is the truth about money — it holds the
      schedule, runs the retries and decides what a proration is worth — so
      these routes ask it to change something and answer with what it then said.
      `provider_synced_at` is how stale the copy admits to being.
  - name: Provider webhooks
    description: >-
      Where a payment provider delivers to. Not a surface you call — it is a URL
      you paste into the provider's dashboard, which is why it sits outside
      `/v1`: a version bump must never mean editing a setting in somebody else's
      product. Signed with the secret of the connection named in the path, and
      safe to retry.
  - name: Entitlements
    description: >-
      What one of **your** customers may do, resolved: the plan their
      subscription carries, plus the overrides you promised them on top. This is
      the read your own gate calls, so it is cached and answers in one round
      trip. It is a different question from `GET /v1/organization/entitlements`,
      which is the plan **you** are on with UserKit — two catalogues, same word,
      different money.
paths:
  /v1/organization/catalogue/features/{id}:
    patch:
      tags:
        - Catalogue
      summary: Update a feature
      description: >-
        Requires `billing:write`. Changes a feature's name, its description, and
        whether it is archived. Send only the fields you are changing;
        `archived` is a state it can come back from.


        What cannot change is **how the feature is measured** — `kind`,
        `unit_name` and `reset_period` are refused, by name, rather than quietly
        ignored. The kind is copied onto every plan that carries the feature,
        and the database refuses to change it while any plan does: flipping
        `metered` to `boolean` under a plan would leave a limit nothing reads
        and a customer whose usage stopped being counted. A feature measured
        differently is a different feature — create it under a new key and
        archive this one.


        `key` is refused for the same reason a plan's is: it is the string your
        own code gates on.
      operationId: updateCatalogueFeature
      parameters:
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/OrganizationHeader'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/EnvironmentQuery'
        - name: id
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
            format: uuid
          description: The feature.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                name:
                  type: string
                description:
                  type: string
                archived:
                  type: boolean
            example:
              name: API calls
              description: Requests to your public API
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The feature as it now stands.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CatalogueFeature'
        '400':
          description: >-
            `invalid_request` — the id is not a uuid, the name is empty, or
            `environment` is neither `live` nor `test`.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '422':
          description: >-
            `feature_key_immutable` — the body carried `key`; or
            `feature_measurement_immutable` — it carried `kind`, `unit_name` or
            `reset_period`.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
components:
  parameters:
    OrganizationHeader:
      name: X-Organization-Id
      in: header
      required: false
      schema:
        type: string
      description: >-
        The organization the caller is acting on — the `org_…` code that appears
        in the panel URL. It *identifies*; the membership JOIN is what
        *authorizes*, so a forged code reads nothing. Absent, the session's
        default organization answers.
    EnvironmentQuery:
      name: environment
      in: query
      required: false
      schema:
        type: string
        enum:
          - live
          - test
        default: live
      description: >-
        Which environment to act in. A view parameter, valid only on the staff
        surface — a machine credential never chooses its environment, it is
        resolved from the key.
  schemas:
    CatalogueFeature:
      type: object
      description: >-
        One thing your product does, that your plans may or may not include.
        Yours, not UserKit's — the key is a string **your** code gates on.
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
        key:
          type: string
          description: >-
            Lowercase letters, digits, `_`, `-` and `.`. What your own code
            compares against.
          example: api_calls
        name:
          type: string
        description:
          type: string
        kind:
          type: string
          enum:
            - boolean
            - metered
            - credit
          description: >-
            `boolean` is on or off. `metered` is counted against a ceiling that
            resets. `credit` is spent from a balance — a counter answers “how
            much this period”, a balance answers “how much is left”.
        unit_name:
          type: string
          description: >-
            What one unit is called (`seats`, `runs`, `tokens`). Empty on a
            `boolean` feature and required on the others: a limit with no unit
            is a number nobody can read.
        reset_period:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          enum:
            - day
            - week
            - month
            - year
            - billing_period
            - null
          description: >-
            How a `metered` feature's counter is bucketed; `null` for the other
            kinds. It belongs to the feature rather than to the plan, so a
            counter keeps its shape when a customer changes plan mid-period.
        archived:
          type: boolean
        created_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
    Error:
      type: object
      description: Every error in this API answers this envelope.
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
              description: Stable. Branch on this.
            message:
              type: string
              description: For a person. May change.
          required:
            - code
            - message
      required:
        - error
      example:
        error:
          code: forbidden
          message: your role does not allow this action
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: >-
        `unauthorized` — missing, malformed or expired credential. A well-formed
        credential from the wrong family says so: "this endpoint expects a staff
        session token, not an organization API key".
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Forbidden:
      description: '`forbidden` — your role does not allow this action.'
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    NotFound:
      description: >-
        `not_found`. Also the answer for a resource that exists in another
        organization or environment — the 404 never reveals which.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    sessionToken:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: >-
        A staff session token, `uk_st_…`. Minted by sign-up, sign-in or the
        two-factor exchange.

````